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"In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics."
"The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation."
"State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules."
"The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics."
"There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank."
"Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets."
"photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing."
"Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology."
"I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics."
"To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness."
"I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices."
"We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning."
"'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'"
"We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct."
"The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy."
"Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain."
"I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic."
"A societies needs determines their ethics"
"There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other"
"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."
